Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 84
e acquaint-ance with the data upon which our deductions areto rest. To set forth, therefore, what is known of theseveral planets of our solar system, is a necessarypreliminary to any understanding of how they cameto be or whither they are tending; and as our knowl- 58 THE INNER PLANETS 59 edge has… … Orbits of the Inner Planets. in this chapter a birds-eye view of the present stateof planetary astronomy, which he will find almost adifferent part of speech from what it was thirty yearsago. It is not so much in our knowledge of theirpaths as of their persons that our acquaintance with 6o THE…
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